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THAT ARE SOME SCARY BLACK OUT!
 
I love black. And aircooled.

Im sure it will look nice, but I wonder if it will hurt the cooling performance by how much.. Keep it up!

Video could be fake, drivers hello?, what was ambient temps, what cooler was used, was it OCed, exactly what board, what paste, and so on. Just wait for Gamers Nexus. LTT is sorta garbage now days with benchmarks

Gaming seats sorta suck and are over priced for what they are. I suggest just going to Office Max/Depot, IKEA, or some other office supplies store and getting a comfy, ergonomic, and supportive chair. Gaming chairs typically are modeled after sports care bucket seats meant to keep you from sliding left or right in a car. They can also be very firm and lack lumbar support. For $400 you can get a pretty decent office chair that is comfier and better for you. It won't look as cool but who cares if you can't sit in it for more than 3 hours straight

Sneak peak... that is all for nowzz..
 
 
 

I still have my iphone 4s running normally since the 1st day I bought it..
 
 
And this is the latest stuff I got. It's one of my PPE.

When 3, it was 3! enemy's Heavy Tanks YOLOed you while you are alone without support around you in a small corridor.
Not-even-pro-tip:
1. Aim its tracks! and destroy him in desperations.
2. Just face-hug and push him to the wall, aim the weakest spot FTW!
3. Sidescrapping to bounce his shots.
(Who said that World of Tanks is a Pay-to-Win game? No premium ammo was needed to win the battle here!)
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 
 
 
Battle scores:

 

I got a gpu to fully test my plans.
 
Such a small world as i brought it locally on ebay to save hassle and it was one of my colleagues from work.
 
As 2 slots wont work this hopefully should.
 
Palit Gtx 750 1gb with shroud removed

it's only a 4W difference (insignificant), but the lower heat is because the CPU is loaded less so that affects the GPU as well

Game optimization

the GPU is under full load in both scenarios simply because your CPU can handle processing all the frames needed for the GPU to be utilized at 100%, the GPU doesn't care which game is more GPU intensive, it will always try to do the best it can, whether the CPU can keep up that's up to how the game is optimized and how your system is balanced, when the GPU is below 100% that means that there's a CPU bottleneck, but when the CPU is below 100% that's a GPU bottleneck which is good and is recommended, you don't want the CPU to be at 100%, that will cause stutters

What you described is exactly whats happening, you're getting more CPU usage in WoT, and 100% GPU load doesn't mean you get the same FPS, it just means the GPU is doing the best it can, which is ideal

and again 4W difference is nothing, that's basically the difference between the fan at low RPM vs a fan at higher RPM

But spending 700 on an RTX 2080 is not the best value.
 
Besides waiting a couple weeks to see what Nvidia's SUPER actually is, and what it will cost, and seeing what the RX 5700 (xt) actually does in the real world...
 
I think the 2060 is most frames per dollar you can get right now, with the RX 580 very closely behind it. However if you want to get serious about gaming and want the card to last, an RTX 2070 or some of the new upcoming cards will likely be the way to go. I'm rather excited to see what the vanilla RX 5700 and RTX 2060 Super are going to be 

Bought an Alienware R5 case that I’m gonna make a project out of. To my surprise, it came with the PSU and the threw in a new power cable as well.
 

small UPDATE..
 
Got my custom sleeved 24pin ATX cable today..
 
It was pain to install the cable while I insist to put back the fan behind the heatsink, ended up get rid again the side plate and the additionall storage drives to put another fan on the cooler to be push-pull configuration.
 
Credit to "xinvicious" the local cable mod guy who made this for me..
 

 

 

 

Too late.
 
 
It feels very well made.
Looks really nice in a white build.
Can't hear it inside the P400s.
Cleared my crucial balistix lt ram. Didn't have to raise the fan.
 
Max temps on 6600k @4.4ghz went from 64c on the Be quiet! Pure Rock to 58c on the Deepcool Neptwin White.
I think the idle temps went from 32c to 30c.
 
6 pipe 2 tower design.
Seems like a steal at $45.
Noctua just announced a series of white fans. Probably grab those when they come out.
 
Bumped it up to 4.5ghz. Could probably go higher but ima scared.
 

Lower = better. Any professional E-Sport player will tell you that lowering your mouse sensitivity until you have no more space to move your mouse is the way to go.
 
Most players that I know of, are playing at 800-2000 dpi at 1-10% in game sensitivity.

theres always a bungee, and wireless increases weight more due to batteries. its only 10-15% heavier than the G703.

1.1v with auto LLC?
No wonder it crashes.
Auto LLC, if that's set to 2.1 mOhms, and assuming prime95 is pulling 100 amps on your system is:
1100 - (2.1 * 100) = 890mv = 0.890v.  Even if it's using the mOhms value for default loadline for 8 core processors (1.6. mOhms) is still going to be 1100 - (1.6 * 100)=0.940v.  
Trying to run prime95 at 0.890v or 0.940v and complaining that it's crashing?  Good luck man.
(Then again I have no idea what mOhms setting MSI uses for its "Auto" LLC.  Gigabyte uses the same value for Auto/Normal/Standard (1.6 mOhms for 8 core processors, 2.1 mOhms for 4 and 6 core CFL, but it's possible other programs or Multi Core Enhancement can change the LLC if it's set to auto)
 
Please do what I said instead of making excuses first.  Other software doesn't pull the same amps as prime95.  I'm 99.95% sure if you downloaded OCCT 5.0.1 and ran the 90% linpack test, you would get an error after awhile.

Other test software don't stress the CPU the same or the the same level. If you watch the CPU package TDP when running other tests and running Prime95 you can see a big difference in how much work the CPU is actually doing.

Well, you need to up the voltage for these extreme tests (Intel Burn Test as well). They push the CPU to crazy loads. I haven't had any issues with the builds that I've done that have survived Intel Burn Test. But yeah, if you're just gaming, I wouldn't try any crazy tests.

They're both basically the same, you don't need to run any power virus/burn in tests to test an overclock. What's stable for daily use or gaming won't be stable in those unrealistic workloads

As many of you probably know by now, I've been slowly chipping away at my first real case mod. This project has been in the works for almost a year; I got the PowerMac G5 in April of 2018 and decided after spending hours troubleshooting it, that I wanted to modify it to fit ATX hardware in August of that year.
 
Thus the research phase began. If you go on Google and look up "powermac g5 mod", odds are I've read and watched every build log on the first page and a half of results. This phase continued for a few months while I planned how I wanted to do the mod. I also talked with people who have done mods like this before, aka @DrMacintosh.
 
The next step was deciding on parts to use. I decided on the X99 platform as the base for this mod. I had been spending some time with the lovely people in the X58 Xeon/i7 Discussion Thread, which fed me a lot of information about Intel's HEDT platform and how it had been aging. X58 is 10 years old at this point however, and I don't really want something that old in my new gaming PC and workstation. So I popped over to the used market and started looking at X99 prices, since I knew it was still modern and the CPUs perform pretty well by today's standards.
 
Over the summer and fall of 2018, I went about gutting the G5 case entirely. By this time I knew how I wanted to modify it and most of what I'd need to fit an ATX motherboard in. Apologies for lack of pictures, there were technical difficulties and I ended up losing all my documentation of most of the project . Hope y'all like to read, this isn't a very image-heavy thread.
 
A couple years ago, I got an Athlon MP system from a church friend who was looking to rid of some of their old computers. That's not as important to my story as the case that system came in is. The Athlon MPs were housed in a Lian Li PC-61:
This case is important to this project due to its motherboard tray and back panel. The PowerMac G5 is extremely proprietary, and won't house an ATX motherboard with all 7-8 expansion slots without some fairly extensive modding. The PC-61's motherboard tray and back panel slide out with the removal of 4 thumbscrews on the back, leaving you with something like this:

I knew when I saw it that this was how I could mount an ATX motherboard in the G5. So I took some power tools to the G5, cut out a big hole in the back(it's not pretty due to the tool I was using, but it's functional), cut down the back panel just a little bit, sanded everything down, JB welded it in place, and boom! ATX motherboard support!
 
However, my journey was nowhere near complete. I still had to figure out mounting for my power supply, hard drives and SSDs, and still source parts. Back to research, it was. Not much was helpful this time around, most people reused the G5's drive cage. Not an option for me, that cage was brutally ripped out of the case with most of everything else. Keep looking.
 
By the time I reached this point, through a chain of events, I had started and stopped working for @CUDAcores89. Long story short, I got his X99 rig as payment. Housed in a Fractal Design Define R5. With removable drive cages. The stars had aligned perfectly, or something.
 
I tore the hardware out of the case as soon as I got it home so I could do some test fits. I found places for the drive cage and the power supply, and started ordering various parts from Amazon and eventually Ebay to finish the project. By this point, the date was roughly 2 weeks ago if my memory serves my correctly. pakidges started arriving, and my hard drive cage was JB welded into the G5 case. Featured in this picture are also my Crucial MX500 SSD and WD Blue HDD.
Again, not exactly pretty, but functional. This was my first time using JB Weld, give me a break. Gosh.
 
"But Crunchy, what did you order from Ebay?" I'm glad you asked! My GeForce GTX 780 has served me well for sure over the year and a half I've had it, but I thought it was time to move on to something better. That something arrived today, taking the form of an EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC:
I know the lighting and quality is bad. Bleh.
 
This was to be my crown jewel of the build(in a manner of speaking). I started doing tests(had to figure out some technical difficulties, thakns to @Stefan Payne for attempting to help me through them). Everything fit together nicely, and cable management was surprisingly decent.
How is the power supply secured, you ask? Industrial strength Velcro. I didn't want to fabricate a mount for it. It's been holding up pretty well.
Is that Lego between the power supply and CPU heatsink? Yes.
Why the heck did you put Lego there? There's only half a centimeter of space between the GPU PCB and heatsink, the Lego is there to make sure the PCB stays off the heatsink so it doesn't kill itself.
 
FINAL THOUGHTS:
This was a fun project overall. I can't wait to do it again in 10 years with a Mac Pro 2019 and a G5.
 
FUTURE PLANS:
I'll want to wire up the front panel power button at the very least. If I could get some intake fans mounted as well, that would be nice too. I may cut a bigger hole in the back so I can mount a 120mm exhaust fan. Eventually, I'll have to find some way to upgrade storage.
 
SPECIFICATIONS:
Intel Core i7-5820K
16GB(4x4GB) mixed DDR4-2400 memory
Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI motherboard
Phanteks TC14PE CPU cooler
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC
Corsair RM1000x
WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD
Crucial MX500 250GB SSD
Modded PowerMac G5 case
 
Thus concludeth the case mod build log. If I dig up any other pictures that are noteworthy or act on any of my plans for the future of this system, I'll post them in this thread.
 
Thanks for reading this far, I hope you liked it. ❤️
~Crunchy

Wow, the drive cage and backplate welding are certainly a committed way to go about doing this. LOL. 
 
It's nice to see another G5 mod. 
 
Also I can see you have to correct front panel board to allow the power button, LED, and USB 2.0 ports to work too. Interesting that you have a metal housing for it though, mine does not because I bought the front panel board separately. 
 

UPDATE:
 
I kind of managed to move the NH-C14S fan, from the front to the back of its heatsink.
Thankfully the SF600 24pin ATX cable not too stiff to bend, to give a bit more space for the NF-A14 to fit behind the heatsink.
 

 
 
 
We got the HDD mountings overlapped the heatsink for about 1cm and spare a gap around 5mm
 

 

 
 
 
and also between the CPU cooler fan and the PSU, leave around 1cm gap
 

 
 
 
Now we don't have any contacts here on the side panel since the fan was moved to the oposite side of the heatsink.
 

 
 
 
We now have the NH-C14S in pull configuration, and add a single 2.5" SSD and a single 3.5" HDD. So basically now I utilize almost all features of the QBX. It got no excuses for me to leave its functionalities to be left out unused. The only compromise is I can't install a pair of 25mm thick 120mm fans on the bottom under the GPU as the GPU fans will grind the 120mm fan's frame and makes scary grinding sounds. I dont take an option to use slim 120mm fans on the bottom, so I'll leave it like this for sometimes.